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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 28, 2019 12:17:28 GMT -5
Thanks Farrar, yes, that was 'Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City' on TCM... my guess of 1946 was a little off... I was going by the cars in the street. It's funny, when they showed the Algonquin Hotel I said to myself that would be the second one because the first was at the site where the Empire State building went up, and then the narrator said the same thing. Imagine walking around there all the comic artists, a young Joe Kubert, a young Will Eisner, Fran Hopper, Joe Maneely... maybe Matt Baker would be in town.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 28, 2019 20:36:15 GMT -5
I’m willing to cut fantasy shows a lot of slack when it comes to science... but statements like “the radiation of a blue star is lethal to anyone with a Y chromosome” is nonsensical to the point of causing brain damage to a show’s viewers.
I remember the old days of the Star Trek Technonsense... Like that time someone’s RNA had been stolen from their cells, or when “reactivated” introns changed people into cavemen. Those days never went away, they just switched shows!
There! I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 28, 2019 20:51:19 GMT -5
Years back I really enjoyed Smallville. It had an excellent cast but I dropped it around season 5. I dunno about the cast. The Kents, Luthors, and Chloe were all excellent, but Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, and Sam Jones III had all the personality and charm of dead wood. Welling and Kreuk were the love story and Jones was just the friend , they are supposed to be the straight men for the more eccentric characters.
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Post by Duragizer on Nov 3, 2019 18:07:11 GMT -5
Frances McDormand is the female Willem Dafoe. Willem Dafoe is the male Frances McDormand.
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Post by berkley on Nov 3, 2019 20:23:12 GMT -5
I don't watch Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Black Lightning, and any other Superhero shows on Television ... including the new Batwoman show. I'm probably the only member here that does that ... and there I said it on this thread. I spend too much time watching movies, documentaries, and old sitcoms to fuel my entertainment needs. I don't watch any of those shows either. In fact, I'd go further and say that I have never seen any comic superhero-related TV show that I've thought was any good. And that includes so-called classics like the old 60s Batman TV show. They are all, without exception, utter tosh. I prefer my comic heroes on the comic page...not on the TV screen. I basically agree and the same goes for the movies: none of these characters or the genre as a whole really works anywhere the way they do on the comic book page, for me.
At the same time, I have been able to enjoy the movies and some of the tv shows as light entertainment. But none of them comes within a million miles of the better comics featuring those same characters.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 4, 2019 9:46:13 GMT -5
I don't watch Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Black Lightning, and any other Superhero shows on Television ... including the new Batwoman show. I'm probably the only member here that does that ... and there I said it on this thread. I spend too much time watching movies, documentaries, and old sitcoms to fuel my entertainment needs. I don't watch any TV really. I did get the first DVD of Arrow from Netflix years ago but it didn't hold me. And when I was at someone's house I caught an episode of the group show...Legends of Tomorrow I think? Pretty bad. Looked like a bunch of cosplayers.
I did like the first season if S.H.I.E.L.D. a lot, but that's all I got through because Netflix never got any more, at least not while I was a member.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 10:37:13 GMT -5
I don't watch Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Black Lightning, and any other Superhero shows on Television ... including the new Batwoman show. I'm probably the only member here that does that ... and there I said it on this thread. I spend too much time watching movies, documentaries, and old sitcoms to fuel my entertainment needs. I don't watch any TV really. I did get the first DVD of Arrow from Netflix years ago but it didn't hold me. And when I was at someone's house I caught an episode of the group show...Legends of Tomorrow I think? Pretty bad. Looked like a bunch of cosplayers. I did like the first season if S.H.I.E.L.D. a lot, but that's all I got through because Netflix never got any more, at least not while I was a member.
Liked your description of a "bunch of cosplayers" on the Legends show ... Just spot on!
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Post by brutalis on Nov 4, 2019 11:01:37 GMT -5
Except that cosplayer's have more accurately designed comic book costumes! Television and movies have to "rationalize" everything and make super hero costumes look "real" on the screen. Why? They are comic book designs given life upon the big and small screen meant for entertaining. Yes, some are not going to come off very well and others are just gonna be plain silly. But comic books are fantasy and DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THE DEMANDS OF REALITY! My own personal pet peeve/rant.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 4, 2019 11:41:44 GMT -5
Television and movies have to "rationalize" everything and make super hero costumes look "real" on the screen. Why? They are comic book designs given life upon the big and small screen meant for entertaining. Yes, some are not going to come off very well and others are just gonna be plain silly. But comic books are fantasy and DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW THE DEMANDS OF REALITY! My own personal pet peeve/rant. As a comic fan, I agree and sympathise, but I think that the sad reality is that, for your average, non-comic reading viewer, the fact that the costumes look "real" is what makes the shows watchable. If the heroes' costumes were more like their comic book counterparts -- all spandex and buccaneer boots -- they would look as ridiculous as most cosplayers do. That would alienate the non-comic book fans who, lest we forget, probably represent something like 98% of the audience that have filled the theatres and tuned in on TV to make these comic-related movies and TV shows into the hugely profitable phenomenon that they are today. Without that profit potential, we wouldn't have any comic book movies at all. *EDIT: * = ...and I'd be pretty much fine with that, quite honestly.
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Post by berkley on Nov 4, 2019 16:51:39 GMT -5
I think that the colourful skin-tight costumes that look so cool on the comic-book page, where the superheroes who wear them are often drawn in an exaggerated or at least very stylised form by the artist, will never look right when worn by actors on the screen, no matter how much they work out.
I still don't know why no one has ever tried a serious Marvel/DC adaptation with Incredibles-level animation and voice-acting. I'm not saying it would be bound to work, but I'd like to see the attempt made.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 4, 2019 21:56:31 GMT -5
I thought that the costumes used in the X-men franchise worked well. And they made the right choices in the Avengers movies by having Cap mostly without the cowl and Thor without the Helmet.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 9, 2019 9:06:52 GMT -5
I'm going to enter "Old Man Yells at Cloud" territory here, and if anyone responds with an "OK Boomer" (even though I am solidly Gen-X), I'll accept it.
Technology is a great thing, particularly the internet. It has taken vast volumes of information that would have required owning encyclopedias (which quickly become outdated) or reading multiple books and placed it all in one easily-searchable location. For example, my older daughter was telling me that the title for the first episode of Season Four of Stranger Things was just announced, and it is "The Hellfire Club", so I gave my daughters an assignment for the weekend to tell me what the real Hellfire Club is, when it was founded, where it was founded, and who are its most famous members. I can use an innocuous thing like a TV episode title and send my kids on a search this weekend to learn something they never knew before, and we don't have to leave the house to do it.
However, technology has a downside, currently manifesting itself as the scourge known as "mobile ordering". When I walk into a Starbucks, place an order at the counter, and then have to wait 20 minutes (just happened two weekends ago) because they are fulfilling the orders of the people who are too important and don't have time to come in and order, it makes me not want to patronize them any more. Oh, I know it would be easy for me to "download their app" so that I could join the legions of people who place their order for drinks or food (I ran into the same issue at Wendy's last night, so my older daughter and I walked out and went next door to Arby's, who doesn't do it), then come in and get it at their leisure, but I don't want to clog up my phone with more tech that is just going to mine my data and spy on me.
Businesses are going to lose customers if they don't do a better job of balancing the experience for the folks who place an order from their car and swing by to pick it up 15 minutes later and those who just decide to pop in for something. Not all of us want a Starbucks app on our phone, not because we're Luddites but because we don't see the need for it and we don't feel the need to order ahead when all we want is a medium cup of Pike Place.
There. I said it.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 9, 2019 9:26:44 GMT -5
If this were to become Canada’s national anthem, I wouldn’t mind one bit.
In fact, I’d stand up and cheer! I really miss that theme. It unites Canadians like nothing else can.
There. I said it!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 9, 2019 11:00:39 GMT -5
I'm going to enter "Old Man Yells at Cloud" territory here (...) I'll do you one better: although I can, I do not access the internet on my phone (not even to check e-mails). I use it pretty much solely to 1) make phone calls 2) send and receive, very occasionally, text messages and 3) listen to music or podcasts, which I copy to it from my computer. The only app I use, again, very occasionally when needed, is to pay for parking in the city where I live.
Yes, the internet is a wonderful, irreplaceable resource, but I like to take a break from it (i.e., I don't like it to follow me around wherever I go). So yeah, I guess I'm still stuck in the past century in that regard - and like you, I'm not a boomer.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 14:49:31 GMT -5
Well I am a boomer and I am puzzled why businesses are leaving money on the table. Guess who has disposable income to spend on stuff? Us later boomers that are still working. Yet modern business doesn't seem to want my money so I have stopped using businesses like The Captain mentions. Granted they are trying to get the younger customers but I would still be spending my money for another 15 years before I start slowing down like my parents did a few years ago.
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